Waitin' for the End of the World
Troutfishing said this was a diary, so here. I should be more scared than I am what with all the stuff I track: The fascists, the fundamentalists, bird flu, peak oil. But I tell you, I was born in...
View ArticleAre You a Doom Junkie?
I'm losing all my friends. They think I'm nuts. I'm wondering whether they're correct. Are we nuts? Or are we just doom junkies? I've been getting lots of blank stares lately. If I talk about the end...
View ArticleOn Despair For My Country
What happens when the Shining City Upon a Hill falls into chaos? On looking for a citation for "Shining City Upon a Hill" I first found Reagan, but I am loath to attribute that man. Further searching...
View ArticleBuy a gas guzzler and GM will buy your gas
This has to rank as the most absurd offer ever. General Motors Corp. is promising gas-guzzler buyers in Florida and California that they will "cap" gas costs at $1.99 per gallon.The Miami Herald has...
View ArticleRevelations on 666: Origins of a symbol [w/Poll]
Where does the idea of 666 as a satanic symbol come from? While theatrically it's associated with the movie the Omen, whose remake is opening today, one has to ask how far back are its roots?...
View ArticleThe End of The World
That's great, it starts with an earthquake, birds and snakes, an aeroplane and Lenny Bruce is not afraid. Eye of a hurricane, listen to yourself churn - world serves its own needs, dummy serve your own...
View ArticleOh No! Oh Help! Bloody Google. UPdated
During this week when I have been informed:1] What colour boxer shorts Obama will be wearing for the inauguration. 2] What colour socks Biden will dance in. 3] The height and angle of Michelle's...
View ArticleHave you seen the Anti-Christ hanging out lately?
Lately I've heard by the conservative grapevine that Obama is the Anti-Christ, meaning that the Great Rapture is just around the corner, and even perhaps the end of the world.Some folks like to label...
View ArticleNEXT time, the Republic is gone for good.
The following diary -http://www.dailykos.com/...started me thinking. Truth is that we WERE saved from a dictatorship by the poor choice of an inept and ultimately unwilling figurehead. George W. Bush...
View ArticleMayan Calendar & the End of the World?
There has been a lot of media coverage on the misconception that the ancient Maya calendar is somehow predicting the end of the world (worse case scenario) or at least some major catastrophe in 2012....
View ArticleThe Road: A Storm Warning for Humanity
"It is important for the human race to spread out into space for the survival of the species," Stephen HawkingThere is no film that illustrates the foolishness of confining human civilization solely to...
View ArticleBREAKING NEWS: The End of the World
The non-Indian interpretations of the Maya Calendarthat call for the world to end in 2012 have it wrong. Harold Camping, based on a mathematical model of the Bible, predicts that the world will end on...
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Yeah? Well Mine Is Bigger
Taipei 101Yesterday's news of the opening of the world's tallestbuilding phallic symbol was a pun fest. The New York Times, for example, had as a headline, "Dubai Opens a Tower to Beat All." The Dubai...
View ArticleLarge Hadron Collider: Good news and bad news (Updated)
There is good news and bad news about the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) that began -- finally -- to smash protons beams together at 99% of the speed of light today below the fields and meadows at CERN's...
View ArticleThe Day After iPad - Is There One?
The media is awash with the buzz, the lines are snaking all over the world with famished "wanters" and "needers" and like an oracle's tablet the iPad is delivered as if coming down from Mt. Olympus....
View ArticlePassing the Buck...Down
Lost amid the debate over health care, the two wars, the financial meltdown, and whether or not we're paying less taxes under Obama than under Bush (I suspect this is correct, but I don't think it's...
View ArticleThe Midnight Cry
This is the first of a series of articles looking at predictions of the "end of the world." Because this is only a portion of the discussion, it may seem that the political aspects are pretty light....
View ArticleThe end of the world! (w/audio)
Today Devilstower posted a fine diary on the Millerites and the end of the world. I was exposed to a lot of this from an early age, from Beyond the Fringe's "The End of the...
View ArticleThe Midnight Cry (Part 2)
Last Sunday featured a look at the Millerites, a group that grew rapidly through the 1830s based around predictions that the Second Coming would occur in 1843 or 1844. The most definitive prediction...
View ArticleFrom Seasonal Affective to Clinical Depression!
After a hiatus of some months, I am back to give warning about how plain old Seasonal Affective Disorder can descend into the sheer gloom and hopeless darkness of clinical depression. Along the way I...
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